474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech

We have to bear in mind that oppression is almost never imposed on people in one big dose, because that could trigger an immediate revolution and uprising. Instead, oppression is given in small doses in such a way that each dose in itself is insignificant or negligible, but it is the total amount of these small doses that creates a great state of oppression and injustice.

The thing about freedom is that it defines its own borders.

Even the dead heard more than they did.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Formally and officially we are equal before the law, we enjoy the same rights as citizens but informally and unofficially that's another matter altogether

If you want to know the value of freedom, ask people who only dream of having it.

Ideas are expressed using good and bad words and they usually create similar ideas, but not always. However, if you prohibit too many words, you prohibit an equal amount of ideas.

Ideas are like water. They begin as a drip, which can pool and overflow to form a gentle stream. The stream meanders to a babbling brook or leads into a speedy tributary. This can journey to a raging river and that in time ventures to the unconquerable ocean. Some waters and ideas cannot be stopped.

The Freedom of Speech will always be mightier than any small minded censor no matter the flavor of their ignorance.